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Niños centroamericanos siguen migrando a EEUU porque huyen de la muerte

  • Written by Julio Ernesto Acuna Garcia, Assistant Professor, Economics Department, Universidad San Francisco de Quito (Ecuador)

La violencia de pandillas y sus crecientes redes criminales han convertido a El Salvador, Honduras y Guatemala -países conocidos como el “Triángulo del Norte”- en una de las zonas más peligrosas del mundo.

La tasa de homicidios en El Salvador en 2016 -109 asesinatos por cada 100.000 personas- fue 25 veces la de...

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